Any athlete or even our own unfit gamers here can give you conclusive scientific (rather than anecdotal) proof that percepction of time can and does slow down on occasion. They can tell you of those rare times in which time seemed to slow down, and certains plays (or game scenes) in which one usually barely has time to react suddenly take place like in slow motion and one can easily get in position and take the shot. The objective, scientific measure that this is indeed taking place and is not just an illusion is the box score. Athletes in the zone have the game of their life, gamers break highest score records.
Personally, the couple of times I went into "the zone" as a gamer (in different games) I broke my previous highest score record by a factor of 10 over the previous one.
Yeah dvorak... what a freaking odd and naive notion that is.
I come from a third world country and yes, it is freakingly odd and naive. People in other countries are not just poorer, darker Americans. Their motivations, their wants, their approach to life is often different. While in the US people rarely pass on a chance to make a mighty buck, in many third world countries many people will call it a day if they have enough to eat and rather go home and spend time with their family and children even if that means that there is no money in the rainy-days fund.
I won't pass judgement on which of the choices is best. It would be foolish to do so, it comes down to personal choices, either of which has certain desirable and undesirable consequences.
When query google style paid ads at the top of a result set were first introduced in the late 90s people rebelled against. Search engines had to back away from them. Google brought them back using a side panel first, and now at the top in a yellow background, just like they were first introduced 10 years ago (ok, back then the background was blue).
Just watch we-know-who-you-are ads and tracking will become the norm. Don't believe me? See how much valuable personal information people voluntarily upload in Google (mail, calendar, blogger), facebook, myspace, etc. Users just don't care about handing over their most valuable life details to a third party.
Canada and Mexico have seen an increase in air traffic from people on their way to international destinations whishing to avoid US hassles. And before you think these are shady terrorist suspect types trying to avoid US agencies, let it be said that one of the biggest such groups is non-american jews on their way to Israel!
Similarly, I was chating with an American border guard who told me that he routinely gets pulled aside for a "security followup" when traveling on holidays!!! A total waste of time given that this guy, as part of his day to day job, carries a gun inside an airport.
Remember boys and girls, there we have a limited amount of resources to track down terrorists. If we waste these resources doing security followups of immigration guards with FBI clearance (or invading countries that had nothing to do with Al-Qaeda, for that matter), then those are resources taken away from chasing down the real shoe-bombers and Osama-bin-Laden's of this world.
Even if Lubos comes across pretty rude, he sounds he knows what he is talking about.
No he doesn't. He's compensating for lack of solid arguments with rudeness. This is not to say that the paper is any good, but it is a hell of a lot easier to talk about Lisi's number of citations than to say "look, it predicts X when in fact we already have plenty of CERN data in that realm. I downloaded overnight and proved conclusively that not(X) is true". That is what something who knows what is talking about would do.
Lubos is someone who seems to have landed a good academic position by virtue of acting as if he were a bright and brash scientist rather than by being one.
It's so the melting snow and ice will fall away from the foundation and not cause leaks in the cellar.
There was this interview with a big shot Canadian architect in which he asked "what's the big obsession with gabled roof houses anyhow? why not build houses with flat roofs for a change?". The most amateur builder will tell you that waterproofing "flat" roofs in a snowy climate is a major undertaking, usually only doable in commercial buildings which can take regular layerings of molten tar. Then there is the problem of the structural loads of accumulated snow on a flat building.
The ignorance displayed by that architect would be equivalent to a surgeon saying "what is this thing called liver good for anyways?".
Inflation IS the increase in the money supply... not supported by increases in goods in the market.
Economic and population growth increase the amount of goods available in the market. The amount of currency, which is then the storer of this value ought to increase.
first full census of the 'visible Internet' since David Smallberg canvassed a piddling 315 allocated addresses in 1982.
Internap does/did this regularly. In fact if you search firewall mailing lists/security pages you'll find entries discussing Internap pings and describing them as of legit origin and of benign nature.
When I say it works is because we've done it. In fact you can buy this as a commercial service from any number of companies e.g. http://www.maxmind.com/>, http://ip2location.com/>.
Btw. we could do way better than those two companies above, since we did it using more sophisticated techniques than a simple reverse IP lookup.
I was interviewing for a VP (reporting to Balmer or one below) position. I don't know if I would go as far as calling that age discrimination though. It certainly was foolish on their part, but discrimination? not sure about that.
Yup, people who graduate in 2008-2010 are going to command large starting salaries, signing bonuses and will have a choice of where to work. One thing though, businesses today have no patience to train anyone, so you better specialize before you finish your degree (learn networks or CG or oracle or whatever, but you ought to be able to hit the ground running).
Trust me when I say that it's near impossible to get even a passable degree of accuracy.
This is assuming you try to ID the location from a single place. If you probe the IP from ten different geographic locations you can get within 100 miles of the actual destination and quite often a lot closer than that. Quite often the address we guessed was within 10 miles of that listed in the DNS records (which is not always the right one due to corporations collocating their servers at a different address than the DNS record).
The point he is making, which I concur with since I too am a rather succesful in the realm of IT member of the older-fart generation, is that the ability to recall useless trivia from memory is not a criterion for selecting useful employees, but a method of screening for "snotty nosed kids" as he put it.
I had a similar experience with Microsoft. I knew the answer to the trivia since I was once the snottiest of them all, but I simply tuned out and gave half hearted answers. I just didn't want to work for a place that couldn't tell the difference between how you interview a kid fresh out of college and a veteran. For sure you put them through the paces both, but the challenges ought to be different. Say ask the recent grad to write a tree traversal, ask the seasoned veteran what would he/she do if a project under them is stalling and shipping date is a month away.
What's truly sad is when it's considered "embarrasing" to be overprotective of the only Earth..
What is it with this save-the-earth superman-complex of enviromentalists? Too many comics in your childhood?
p.s. I'm all in favour of reductions in pollution and reducing our impact on the environment, but I'm perfectly aware that the consequences of whatever we do is more likely to have a serious bad impact on ourselves that on the earth. E.g. full nuclear armageddon would wipe civilization, but the planet would be back on its feet within a hundred years, hence we shouldn't nuke each other out, but not to save the Earth, but to save our own hides.
No matter how much Consumer Reports et al. say the reliability has improved, and no matter how much the US makers craft intriguing and unique new offerings, their cars' value will continue to tank.
Reliability has improved but the overall car experience still sucks: underpowered, weak brakes, cheap interiors, cabin noise, improper positioning of beams and other view obstructing surfaces, etc.
I rent cars every so often and almost never have rented an American car that I wanted to buy. In contrast often I'd like to keep some of the Japanese rentals I've got (the new Civic is slick).
Do you really, seriously believe that this price-drop was not the plan from day one?
Absolutely. There is no indication that a price drop of this magnitude was in the cards. If you look at the iPod history, the top of the line iPod remained at the same price (or nearly so) for quite a while. The price "reduction" was in the form of higher capacity. This $200 drop is unprecedented and as far as I can see it can only be due to one of two choices, not necessarily mutually exclusive: (1) the iPhones were not selling as fast as expected and (2) the revenues from usage (yes, AT&T agreed to give Apple a portion of monthly billings) proved far higher than expected, hence a reduction in price in exchange from more monthly revenue would make sense.
Just recently we had two candidates a male and a female, with the female CV being somewhat better. Yet some colleagues made comments prefering the male candidate that are very much reminiscent of those in the 1991 study.
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If the number of parallel processors is small (like in multicores) parallel programming is not as difficult as you might think.
Any athlete or even our own unfit gamers here can give you conclusive scientific (rather than anecdotal) proof that percepction of time can and does slow down on occasion. They can tell you of those rare times in which time seemed to slow down, and certains plays (or game scenes) in which one usually barely has time to react suddenly take place like in slow motion and one can easily get in position and take the shot. The objective, scientific measure that this is indeed taking place and is not just an illusion is the box score. Athletes in the zone have the game of their life, gamers break highest score records.
Personally, the couple of times I went into "the zone" as a gamer (in different games) I broke my previous highest score record by a factor of 10 over the previous one.
Yeah dvorak... what a freaking odd and naive notion that is.
I come from a third world country and yes, it is freakingly odd and naive. People in other countries are not just poorer, darker Americans. Their motivations, their wants, their approach to life is often different. While in the US people rarely pass on a chance to make a mighty buck, in many third world countries many people will call it a day if they have enough to eat and rather go home and spend time with their family and children even if that means that there is no money in the rainy-days fund.
I won't pass judgement on which of the choices is best. It would be foolish to do so, it comes down to personal choices, either of which has certain desirable and undesirable consequences.
When query google style paid ads at the top of a result set were first introduced in the late 90s people rebelled against. Search engines had to back away from them. Google brought them back using a side panel first, and now at the top in a yellow background, just like they were first introduced 10 years ago (ok, back then the background was blue).
Just watch we-know-who-you-are ads and tracking will become the norm. Don't believe me? See how much valuable personal information people voluntarily upload in Google (mail, calendar, blogger), facebook, myspace, etc. Users just don't care about handing over their most valuable life details to a third party.
Canada and Mexico have seen an increase in air traffic from people on their way to international destinations whishing to avoid US hassles. And before you think these are shady terrorist suspect types trying to avoid US agencies, let it be said that one of the biggest such groups is non-american jews on their way to Israel!
Similarly, I was chating with an American border guard who told me that he routinely gets pulled aside for a "security followup" when traveling on holidays!!! A total waste of time given that this guy, as part of his day to day job, carries a gun inside an airport.
Remember boys and girls, there we have a limited amount of resources to track down terrorists. If we waste these resources doing security followups of immigration guards with FBI clearance (or invading countries that had nothing to do with Al-Qaeda, for that matter), then those are resources taken away from chasing down the real shoe-bombers and Osama-bin-Laden's of this world.
Even if Lubos comes across pretty rude, he sounds he knows what he is talking about.
No he doesn't. He's compensating for lack of solid arguments with rudeness. This is not to say that the paper is any good, but it is a hell of a lot easier to talk about Lisi's number of citations than to say "look, it predicts X when in fact we already have plenty of CERN data in that realm. I downloaded overnight and proved conclusively that not(X) is true". That is what something who knows what is talking about would do.
Lubos is someone who seems to have landed a good academic position by virtue of acting as if he were a bright and brash scientist rather than by being one.
I just replaced my existing DVD player with a cheap "Up-converting" DVD player-Recorder ($100! AND it plays and copies VHS tapes to DVD!)
Brand? Early reviews? I'm in the market for one.
It had very few, not out of principle, but for the simple reason that the USA took most of them.
This is because Americans can tell the difference between "alien" and "foreigner".
--Hello, I'm an alien from planet England, take me to your leader.
It's so the melting snow and ice will fall away from the foundation and not cause leaks in the cellar.
There was this interview with a big shot Canadian architect in which he asked "what's the big obsession with gabled roof houses anyhow? why not build houses with flat roofs for a change?". The most amateur builder will tell you that waterproofing "flat" roofs in a snowy climate is a major undertaking, usually only doable in commercial buildings which can take regular layerings of molten tar. Then there is the problem of the structural loads of accumulated snow on a flat building.
The ignorance displayed by that architect would be equivalent to a surgeon saying "what is this thing called liver good for anyways?".
Its detonation released energy equivalent to approximately 1% of the power output of the Sun for 39 nanoseconds of its detonation.
Finally, the reason behind global warming!
Inflation IS the increase in the money supply... not supported by increases in goods in the market.
Economic and population growth increase the amount of goods available in the market. The amount of currency, which is then the storer of this value ought to increase.
He didn't drop out to make a buck. He was chasing the technology. The buck came after.
first full census of the 'visible Internet' since David Smallberg canvassed a piddling 315 allocated addresses in 1982.
Internap does/did this regularly. In fact if you search firewall mailing lists/security pages you'll find entries discussing Internap pings and describing them as of legit origin and of benign nature.
When I say it works is because we've done it. In fact you can buy this as a commercial service from any number of companies e.g. http://www.maxmind.com/>, http://ip2location.com/>.
Btw. we could do way better than those two companies above, since we did it using more sophisticated techniques than a simple reverse IP lookup.
The latter is for a management position.
I was interviewing for a VP (reporting to Balmer or one below) position. I don't know if I would go as far as calling that age discrimination though. It certainly was foolish on their part, but discrimination? not sure about that.
Yup, people who graduate in 2008-2010 are going to command large starting salaries, signing bonuses and will have a choice of where to work. One thing though, businesses today have no patience to train anyone, so you better specialize before you finish your degree (learn networks or CG or oracle or whatever, but you ought to be able to hit the ground running).
Trust me when I say that it's near impossible to get even a passable degree of accuracy.
This is assuming you try to ID the location from a single place. If you probe the IP from ten different geographic locations you can get within 100 miles of the actual destination and quite often a lot closer than that. Quite often the address we guessed was within 10 miles of that listed in the DNS records (which is not always the right one due to corporations collocating their servers at a different address than the DNS record).
The point he is making, which I concur with since I too am a rather succesful in the realm of IT member of the older-fart generation, is that the ability to recall useless trivia from memory is not a criterion for selecting useful employees, but a method of screening for "snotty nosed kids" as he put it.
I had a similar experience with Microsoft. I knew the answer to the trivia since I was once the snottiest of them all, but I simply tuned out and gave half hearted answers. I just didn't want to work for a place that couldn't tell the difference between how you interview a kid fresh out of college and a veteran. For sure you put them through the paces both, but the challenges ought to be different. Say ask the recent grad to write a tree traversal, ask the seasoned veteran what would he/she do if a project under them is stalling and shipping date is a month away.
What's truly sad is when it's considered "embarrasing" to be overprotective of the only Earth..
What is it with this save-the-earth superman-complex of enviromentalists? Too many comics in your childhood?
p.s. I'm all in favour of reductions in pollution and reducing our impact on the environment, but I'm perfectly aware that the consequences of whatever we do is more likely to have a serious bad impact on ourselves that on the earth. E.g. full nuclear armageddon would wipe civilization, but the planet would be back on its feet within a hundred years, hence we shouldn't nuke each other out, but not to save the Earth, but to save our own hides.
Americans are the most gracious winners and the world's sorest losers. Ask Germany, Japan, Cuba and Vietnam.
No matter how much Consumer Reports et al. say the reliability has improved, and no matter how much the US makers craft intriguing and unique new offerings, their cars' value will continue to tank.
Reliability has improved but the overall car experience still sucks: underpowered, weak brakes, cheap interiors, cabin noise, improper positioning of beams and other view obstructing surfaces, etc.
I rent cars every so often and almost never have rented an American car that I wanted to buy. In contrast often I'd like to keep some of the Japanese rentals I've got (the new Civic is slick).
Scrapyards and/or exported to third world countries.
Do you really, seriously believe that this price-drop was not the plan from day one?
Absolutely. There is no indication that a price drop of this magnitude was in the cards. If you look at the iPod history, the top of the line iPod remained at the same price (or nearly so) for quite a while. The price "reduction" was in the form of higher capacity. This $200 drop is unprecedented and as far as I can see it can only be due to one of two choices, not necessarily mutually exclusive: (1) the iPhones were not selling as fast as expected and (2) the revenues from usage (yes, AT&T agreed to give Apple a portion of monthly billings) proved far higher than expected, hence a reduction in price in exchange from more monthly revenue would make sense.
Just recently we had two candidates a male and a female, with the female CV being somewhat better. Yet some colleagues made comments prefering the male candidate that are very much reminiscent of those in the 1991 study.